Olathe ? The judge in John E. Robinson Sr.’s murder trial ordered a prosecution witness jailed overnight Monday, after the woman said she had no plans to return today to continue her testimony.

Johnson County District Judge John Anderson III ordered Lore Remington, a Canadian who prosecutors believe was one of the last people to have contact with one of Robinson’s alleged victims, jailed on a $25,000 material witness bond.

Robinson, 58, is charged with capital murder in the deaths of Suzette Trouten of Michigan and Izabela Lewicka, a former Purdue University student. Both were found in barrels on the Olathe man’s rural property in Linn County, about 60 miles south of Kansas City.

Earlier Monday, Remington, 36, testified she met Trouten in a sex-themed Internet chat room in 1996 and communicated with her almost daily until early March 2000.

Trouten told her that she was moving to Kansas to take a new job and would be traveling a lot, Remington testified.

In March 2000, she said, she stopped hearing from Trouten but she then received an e-mail, followed by phone calls, from a man she knew as J.R. Turner. Prosecutors say Turner was Robinson, who they believe had already killed Trouten before he began communicating with Remington.

In his opening statement, Dist. Atty. Paul Morrison described Robinson as a man who hid his lifestyle and intentions from family and victims.

“The evidence will be crystal clear that the defendant has been killing women for over 17 years,” Morrison said.